Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... seems simple enough . Wherever we see a living organism apparently exerting intentional choice , we might infer that it is conscious choice , and therefore that the organism has a mind . But further reflection shows us that this is just ...
... seems simple enough . Wherever we see a living organism apparently exerting intentional choice , we might infer that it is conscious choice , and therefore that the organism has a mind . But further reflection shows us that this is just ...
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... seems , of mere sport . There is a common and well - known rotifer whose body is of a cup shape , provided with a very active tail , which is armed at its extremity with strong forceps . I have seen a small specimen of this rotifer ...
... seems , of mere sport . There is a common and well - known rotifer whose body is of a cup shape , provided with a very active tail , which is armed at its extremity with strong forceps . I have seen a small specimen of this rotifer ...
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... sawdust , it will very soon make its way over the side of the watch - glass and get to it . ' This is certainly a remarkable observation : for it seems to show that the rhizopod distinguishes the presence of the PROTOZOA . 19.
... sawdust , it will very soon make its way over the side of the watch - glass and get to it . ' This is certainly a remarkable observation : for it seems to show that the rhizopod distinguishes the presence of the PROTOZOA . 19.
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... seems to bespeak intelligence as occurring in annelids . He says : - In moving , the land leeches have the power of planting one extremity on the earth and raising the other perpendicularly to watch for their victim . Such is their ...
... seems to bespeak intelligence as occurring in annelids . He says : - In moving , the land leeches have the power of planting one extremity on the earth and raising the other perpendicularly to watch for their victim . Such is their ...
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... seems to profit from experience , for Dicquemase ( ' Journal de Physique , ' vol . xxviii . p . 244 ) asserts that oysters taken from a depth never uncovered by the sea , open their shells , lose the water within , and perish ; but ...
... seems to profit from experience , for Dicquemase ( ' Journal de Physique , ' vol . xxviii . p . 244 ) asserts that oysters taken from a depth never uncovered by the sea , open their shells , lose the water within , and perish ; but ...
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Pagina 140 - ... the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Pagina 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression, as it was not possible to misinterpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his teeth, and pull it with all his force.
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.